Re: New ProjectCenter Icons

[Daniel Santos]

Hello,

My ideia of an IDE is an application that acts as middleware to all the 
tasks that software development has.

Project center would be a menu and a view that would organize all of a 
projects artifacts (look at www.maven.org its a build system for java).

Its what a shell does in unix, and I use unix because it allows to 
organize big tasks by chaining a number of smaller tasks together 
flexibly. It may have the burden of having to know a greater number of 
applications with inconsistent interfaces, but the ease of automating 
their interaction pays off. When you make a shell script that does a 
number of things with a number of programs, the script embeds all that 
knowledge. It works, and you'll only have to look at it when the task 
changes, or when you throw it away.

An IDE could be the same. Gorm would propagate its changes to the 
middleware, Project center, online and/or in a disconnected way ( a 
session file ). The project center would have this information available 
to update the projects status.

For those who do everything in emacs, maybe project center could do 
something for them, in propagating changes sent from gorm to emacs, that 
would have to have some gnustep integration module installed.

For example gdb and DDD, as a debug tools could be configured in project 
center.
These could not be configured to be Project center aware, but project 
center would know how to launch them in the proper way


The user would be given the possibility of chaining the tools together 
in project center through customization, while having a default 
environment to start with.
The current editor and launcher for example.

The way for this kind of integration through a visual shell to be 
possible, is to keep the whole unix development philosophy of having 
applications that are able to process text and output text, and separate 
graphical user interfaces.

If gorm were a command line tool with some scripted language that could 
output gnustep graphical interface files, that would be great to work 
with. You could then use it through the separate UI to easily develop 
the graphical parts, and use the command line tool underneath to output 
a script or data file with the metadata of the gorm file that would be 
input to project center, throug a manual file import or network 
communication.

Daniel Santos